grasshopper-galapagos遗传算法.doc

Evolutionary Principles applied to Problem Solving
遗传算法
There is nothing particularly new about Evolutionary Solvers or Genetic Algorithms. The first references to this field of computation stem from the early 60's when Lawrence J. Fogel published the landmark paper "On the Organization of Intellect" which sparked the first endeavours into evolutionary computing. The early 70's witnessed further forays with seminal work produced by -among others- Ingo Rechenberg and John Henry Holland. Evolutionary Computation didn't gain popularity beyond the programmer world until Richard Dawkins' book "The Blind Watchmaker" in 1986, which came with a small program that generated a seemingly endless stream of body-plans called "Bio-morphs" based on human selection. Since the 80's the advent of the personal computer has made it possible for individuals without government funding to apply evolutionary principles to personal projects and they have since made it into the common parlance.
其实在遗传算法和基因算法里并什么特别新的理论出现，该领域的第一篇文献出现在六十年代由Lawrence J. Fogel 出版的具有里程碑意义的论文“智能组织”，这篇论文使人们开始致力于研究遗传算法。七十年代又由ngo Rechenberg and John Henry Holland的工作进一步带动了基因算法的发展，遗传算法直到1986年才因为Richard Dawkins的“The Blind Watchmake”而让人广为人知，里面有个小的例子，基于人类的选择仍然会产生无尽的被称为“生态形变”的动作计划。80年代由于个人电脑的出现使得每个人都可以将进化算法用于个人项目而不用政府提供资金支持，从此，进化算法开始像日常话题一样进入公众视野。
The term "Evolutionary Computing" may very well be widely known at this point in time, but they are still very much a programmers tool. 'By programmers for programmers' if you will. The applications out there that apply evolutionary logic are either aimed at solving specific problems, or they are generic libraries that allow otherprogrammers to piggyback along. It is my hope that Galapagos will provide a generic platform for the application of Evolutionary Algorithms to be used on a wide variety of problems by non-programmers.
虽然现在进化算法在现在已经广为人知，但他大部分还作为编程工具使用，只是程序员和程序员之间交流，遗传算法即使应用也是处理一些特别的问题，大部分时间还是呆在通用库里等着程序员来用它，我希望galapagos可以提供一个遗传算法的广泛平台来让那些非编程人员来处理一些问题。
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